The former boxing promoter, who revealed he’d begun living as a woman earlier this year, told fellow housemate Dee Kelly that he wanted to pummel the former Strictly Come Dancing professional as tensions rose between the pair.

Chatting about James, Kellie told the Benefits Street star: “I can’t be in the same room as James

“The more I’m around James, the more I want to knock his lights out,” she raged, adding that she hoped the public vote her out on Wednesday’s eviction.

Things later reached boiling point between the pair as the group discussed Lauren Goodger and Ricci Guarnaccio’s relationship.

After Kellie claimed it was no-one else’s business, James asked her if she’d got out of the wrong side of the bed, prompting Kellie to spit back: “I don’t like your company James, do me a favour and don’t talk to me.”

Kellie, who is the bookies’ favourite to leave the telly house in tomorrow night’s eviction, previously branded her rival a bully in a Diary Room rant.

“He’s a very false person, he’s a bully…two faced people are something I don’t tolerate,” he said.